Supreme Court News: There is No Toilet For Women In The Ooty Court Premises Of Tamil Nadu, Hearing On The Petition In The First Week Of July
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Supreme Court News: There is No Toilet For Women In The Ooty Court Premises Of Tamil Nadu, Hearing On The Petition In The First Week Of July
The Supreme Court on Monday listed for post-summer vacations a petition filed by Women Lawyers Association of Nilgiris (WLAN) regarding lack of toilet facilities for women in a court complex in Tamil Nadu’s Ooty.
A vacation bench of Justice Aniruddha Bose and Justice Rajesh Bindal took on record a report filed by the Registrar General of the Madras High Court detailing the facilities available in the court complex.
The Supreme Court had earlier directed the Registry of the Madras High Court to file a detailed report on the measures taken to address the shortage of toilets for women lawyers at the recently inaugurated Combined Court Complex in Ooty.
The apex court had on June 9 said that the previous report of the registrar general of the high court did not elaborate on the facilities for women lawyers in the new court complex and also whether there was any shortfall in such facilities available earlier.
The bench had asked the High Court registry to file a report which it would peruse on Monday. “Let a detailed report be filed by the High Court administration through the Registrar General. Such report should reach the Registry of this Court electronically by Sunday and the matter be listed on Monday, the 12th June” observed the bench.
On June 7, National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma wrote to the registrar general of the Madras High Court about the steps taken to address the issue of lack of toilets for women lawyers in the Nilgiris court complex. The NCW, in its letter to the High Court, had said that the new court complex, inaugurated in June 2022 and full of many facilities, shockingly lacks an essential toilet where women lawyers can go.
The NCW, in its letter to the high court, had said that prolonged neglect of the legitimate and basic needs of women is not only a violation of their rights, but also hinders their ability to effectively discharge their legal responsibilities.
